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                           Astronomy Picture of the Day   
      
       Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our   
         fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation   
                       written by a professional astronomer.   
      
                                  2025 January 18   
      
                               Full Moon, Full Mars   
                      Image Credit & Copyright: David Bowman   
      
      Explanation: On January 13 a Full Moon and a Full Mars were close, both   
      bright and opposite the Sun in planet Earth's sky. In fact Mars was   
      occulted, passing behind the Moon, when viewed from some locations in   
      North America and northwest Africa. As seen from Richmond, Virginia,   
      USA, this composite image sequence follows the evening lunar   
      occultation before, during, and after the much anticipated celestial   
      spectacle. The telescopic time series is constructed from an exposure   
      made every two minutes while tracking the Moon over the hours   
      encompassing the event. As a result, the Red Planet's trajectory seems   
      to follow a gently curved path due to the Moon's slightly different   
      rate of apparent motion. The next lunar occultation of bright planet   
      Mars will be on February 9 when the moon is in a waxing gibbous phase.   
      Lunar occultations are only ever visible from a fraction of the Earth's   
      surface, though. The February 9 occultation of Mars will be seen from   
      parts of Russia, China, eastern Canada, Greenland and other (mostly   
      northern) locations, but a close conjunction of a bright Moon with Mars   
      will be more widely visible from planet Earth.   
      
              Growing Gallery: Moon-Mars Occultation in January 2025   
                          Tomorrow's picture: Touchdown!   
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